Box Fan In My Attic Access Cooling My Garage

The warm air escapes through the attic and to the attic vents allowing the circulation of chilly air from the windows.

Box fan in my attic access cooling my garage.

The whole house fan is installed inside the attic between the living space and ceiling. Pedestal fans box fans or even better a higher powered shop fan will get the air in your garage moving. The gf 14 is the 1 garage fan and attic cooler in the usa it moves the hot air out of the garage into the attic through the fan mounted in the garage ceiling. One of the cheapest garage cooling solutions you can use that s still effective is a simple oscillating household fan.

Fire separation venting into attic. Use a wood handsaw to enlarge the opening if necessary before putting the fan in. Alternatively install passive vents such as gable soffit and ridge vents which are openings in the roof that allow hot air to escape. Low cfm similar to a bathroom vent 300cfm and only in the hot spots basically by adding an inline ducting fan to the return ducts for the hotspot rooms.

Make sure this fits by entering your model number. Lind march 3 2006 11 10pm 2. They have thermostats that turn the fan on at a recommended preset temperature of 100 110 degrees. My idea is to vent the build up of hot air that has risen to the ceiling in the hotspot rooms into the attic so that air from cooler parts of the house can move in.

This fits your. At least it might feel cooler. If you have more than one fan place them at a window or at your open garage door to blow hot air from inside your garage to the outside. It helps to cool your home temperatures and the attic by approximately 30 degrees.

The fan is not vented to the exterior. The gf 14 fan brings in cooler air through the bottom front door intake grills of the garage blowing up in to the attic pushing this super heated air out the existing attic vents. If there is not a sufficient firewall between the house portion and the garage then a significant fire hazard. Install electric ventilators and attic fans which remove hot air from an attic.

The attic fan assuming that you have louvers in the attic to vent to incoming air will draw air either from the rest of your house or from your open bedroom window or both. I inspected a house today with an attic fan installed in the garage ceiling never seen this before. If the other sources of air are cooler than the air in your bedroom then the room will become cooler.